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Physician Credentialing: Simplify, Simplify
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Business New Haven
11/11/2002
By: BNH
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To simplify the way Connecticut physicians are credentialed, the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) announced the state launch of its Universal Credentialing DataSource service. CAQH, a not-for-profit alliance of health plans and networks, developed this service to help physicians more easily and cost-effectively provide required credentialing information to health-care organizations.
Officials from several Connecticut health plans participated in developing the CAQH credentialing service and CAQH also obtained the input of physicians, their professional associations and national accrediting organizations.
The CAQH Universal Credentialing DataSource service allows a physician to submit one application that satisfies the credentialing needs of multiple participating health plans. The application can be submitted via the Web or by fax. Updates are collected on a quarterly basis by CAQH, ensuring that the data remains current. CAQH only makes this information available to health plans specifically authorized by each physician.
The program was first launched in Virginia and Colorado in March. It will be deployed in six additional states by the end of the year, and launched nationwide in 2003. There is no cost to physicians to use the Universal Credentialing DataSource service. Development and ongoing maintenance costs are covered by participating healthcare organizations.
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